Editing Snowball Earth (section)

===Inertial interchange true polar wander===
The evidence for low-latitude glacial deposits during the supposed snowball Earth episodes has been reinterpreted via the concept of inertial interchange [[true polar wander]].<ref name=Kirschvink1997>{{cite journal
| author = Kirschvink, J.L.
|author2=Ripperdan, R.L. |author3=Evans, D.A. 
| date = 25 July 1997
| title = Evidence for a Large-Scale Reorganization of Early Cambrian Continental Masses by Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander
| journal = [[Science (journal)|Science]]
| volume = 277
| issue = 5325
| pages = 541–545
| doi = 10.1126/science.277.5325.541
|s2cid=177135895 }}</ref><ref name=Meert1999>{{cite journal
| author = Meert, J.G.
| year = 1999
| title = A palaeomagnetic analysis of Cambrian true polar wander
| journal = [[Earth and Planetary Science Letters]]
| volume = 168
| issue = 1–2
| pages = 131–144
| doi = 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00042-4
| bibcode=1999E&PSL.168..131M
}}</ref>
This hypothesis, created to explain palaeomagnetic data, suggests that Earth's orientation relative to its axis of rotation shifted one or more times during the general time-frame attributed to snowball Earth. This could feasibly produce the same distribution of glacial deposits without requiring any of them to have been deposited at equatorial latitude.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pppl.gov/colloquia_pres/WC01OCT08_Maloof.pdf |title= Rock magnetic evidence for rapid motion of the solid Earth with respect to its spin axis |year= 2008 |access-date=2010-05-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607213103/http://www.pppl.gov/colloquia_pres/WC01OCT08_Maloof.pdf |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref> While the physics behind the proposition is sound, the removal of one flawed data point from the original study rendered the application of the concept in these circumstances unwarranted.<ref name=Torsvik1998>{{cite journal
| author = Torsvik, T.H.
| date = 2 January 1998
| title = Polar Wander and the Cambrian
| journal = [[Science (journal)|Science]]
| volume = 279
| issue = 5347
| page = 9
| doi = 10.1126/science.279.5347.9a
|bibcode = 1998Sci...279....9T | doi-access = free
}}</ref>